Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 45

Jurgen held his pocket-knife in his hand and raised it towards Martin, and at the same time became ashy pale, and his eyes had an ugly look.

Who acts: Jurgen, eyes · What happens: hold, raise, become, have · To what, where: pocket knife, hand, knife, ugly look

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knife	nmod:poss
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knife	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 pocket	punct
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 raised	cc
11	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 raised	obj
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 Martin	case
14	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 raised	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 became	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 became	obl
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	parataxis
22	ashy	ashy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pale	amod
23	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 became	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 became	conj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 look	det
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 look	amod
31	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	Jurgen	Jurgen's pocket knife	Jurgen's hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme in hand=Location
2	raise	past	Jurgen not said here	knife			towards Martin	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme towards martin=Destination
3	become	past				time	pale property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	have	past	Jurgen's eyes	a ugly look				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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